Abit BE6-II, User Manual

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1-2 Chapter1
BE6-II
Y2K compliance deals with the date change over from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 2000,
and with recording and reporting of all dates from the RTC including leap year dates. This
motherboard is free from the Y2K problem because its BIOS are Y2K compliant.
Please Note
If the operating system or application software cannot handle Year 2000 dates, you will
still be facing the Y2K threat because it is not a hardware problem that relates to the
motherboard itself. According to Award BIOS, it is BIOS source code released after 31
May 1995 complies with all known Y2K issues; however, it may still fail the 2000.exe
test. Award has modified its BIOS source code to accommodate the requirements of
2000.exe. Award BIOS source code issued later than 18 November 1996 passes the
NTSL 2000.exe test program.
1-2. Specifications
1. CPU
! Supports Intel

Pentium

III 450 ~ 800 MHz Processor cartridge.
! Supports Intel

Pentium

II 233 ~ 450 MHz Processor cartridge.
! Supports Intel
®
Celeron
™
266 ~ 533MHz processors (Based on 66MHz PPGA package)
! Supports 66 and 100MHz CPU external clock speeds
2. Chipset
! Intel
®
440BX chipset (82443BX and 82371EB)
! HPT366 Ultra DMA66 IDE controller supports four Ultra DMA66 devices
! Supports Ultra DMA/33 IDE protocol
! Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
! Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 1x and 2x mode (Sideband) 3.3V
device
3. Memory (System Memory)
! Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support SDRAM modules
! Supports up to 768MB MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 MB SDRAM)
! Supports ECC
4. System BIOS
! CPU SOFT MENU
™
III, can easily set the processor parameters
! AWARD 6.0 Version BIOS